Ethnic democracy is a form of democratic ethnic conflict
regulation in deeply divided societies. In "The Challenge of Ethnic
Democracy, "Yoav Peled argues that ethnic democracy is constituted
by the combination of two contradictory constitutional principles:
liberal democracy and ethno-nationalism, and that its stability
depends on the existence of a third, mediating constitutional
principle of whatever kind.
This central argument is supported by an analysis of the history
of three ethnic democracies; Northern Ireland under Unionist rule,
where ethnic democracy was stable for almost 50 years (1921-1969),
then collapsed; The Second Polish republic (1918-1939), where
ethnic democracy was written into the constitution but was never
actualised; and Israel within its pre-1967 borders, where ethnic
democracy was stable for 35 years (1966-2000) but may now be
eroding. This book examines the different trajectories of the case
studies, demonstrating that Poland lacked a third, mediating
constitutional principle, while Israel and Northern Ireland did
have such a principle civic republicanism in Israel, and populism
in Northern Ireland. The collapse of ethnic democracy in Northern
Ireland resulted from the weakening of populism, that depended on
British monetary subsidies for its implementation, whilst the
erosion of ethnic democracy in Israel resulted from the decline of
civic republicanism since the onset of economic liberalization in
1985.
Dealing with ethnic democracy in a comparative framework, this
book will appeal to students, scholars and researchers of
Sociology, Political Science and Middle East Studies.
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